visual cortex

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   the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

   Synonymsvisual area

   Broadercortical area

Questions about visual cortex

What does visual cortex mean?

visual cortex means "the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus".

What is another word for visual cortex?

Close synonyms include visual area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is visual cortex a common word?

visual cortex is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.